1. Forensic Science The study of the dead to understand the living.

2. Broadest definition: Application of science to law As our society becomes more complex, science merges more closely with civil and criminal law.

3. Consider: FDA

4. 10 divisions of the American Academy of Forensic Science Criminalistics Engineering Science General Jurisprudence Odontology Pathology Physical Anthropology Psychiatry Questioned documents Toxicology

5. Forensics: Chemistry & Anatomy 1775 - Swedish chemist Carl Scheele: Arsenic in corpses 1814 – Spaniard chemist Mathieu Orfila: “father of forensic toxicology” (poisons) 1839 – French scientist Henri-Louis Bayard: microscopic detection of sperm 1892: Englishman Francis Galton: fingerprints 1901: German Karl Landsteiner: blood types 1984: Englishman Alec Jeffreys: DNA typing